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Freestanding double-pile six-bay two-storey former hospital, built c.1880, having gabled entrance breakfront with three-bay ground floor and two-bay first floor, corresponding projection to rear in turn having flat-roofed single-bay two-storey porch. Two-bay two-storey flat-roofed projection to north-east corner connected to main block by canted screen wall. West elevation has single-bay single-storey lean-to block to north end, courtyard in middle and external staircase to south end elevation. Now in use as army reserve barracks. Pitched slate roofs, cast-iron rainwater goods with red brick chimneystacks and recent yellow brick chimney to west gable. Cut-stone parapets to corner projection, lean-to slate canopy to first flooe entrance in west elevation. Rusticated snecked limestone walls having tooled bands, eaves course and plinth course. Camber-arch blind windows to screen wall of north-east projection. Cut-stone copings to staircase walls, with red brick linings to inner sides. Camber-arch window openings having cut-stone sills and voussoirs and replacement timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows, double to west end of front and rear elevations and to north-east projection, taller gorund floor windows having overlights. Square-headed door opening to front entrance having replacement timber panelled door with sidelights and overlight, and limestone step. Segmental-arch door openings to west elevation, having timber battened doors and limestone thresholds. Square-headed door opening to first floor of west elevation, now blocked. Rusticated stone piers with pointed caps and rusticated stone walls to boundary. Tooled stone wheelguards to entrance. Set in own grounds.
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